Improvement in reflectors



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FAUNT L. SENOUR, or PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN REFLECTORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 181,287, dated August22, 1876; application filed July 25, 1876.

To all whom at may concern:

Be itknown that I, FAUNT L. SENoUR, of Pittsburg, in the county ofAllegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Reflectors, of which the following is aspecification:

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangementof a reflector, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, whichforms a part of this specification, and in which Figure l is a sectiontaken on the line as a; of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 isa bottom view.

A represents the circular pipe, from which the burners B B project atsuitable intervals. 0 is the central pipe in the circleA with stopcocksE E, and D is the vertical pipe pendent from the ceiling. 0n the pipe Dis secured a collar, G, by means of a set-screw, H, and from this collardepends a skeleton-frame, I, in which the two reflectors J and L arefastened. The frame with the reflectors can be adjusted and held at anypoint on the pipe D by means of-the set-screw H, or it can easily beremoved from this fixture and placed on another, if desired. The centerreflector J is somewhat in the form of a hell, or cone-shaped, and ispreferably made of a single piece of glass, and. double-coated on theoutside surface, first with silver, and second with any suitable coatingto protect the silver. This reflector may be corrugated, or constructedof separate pieces of glass, and it is intended expressly to throw thelight downward and chiefly under the reflector.

The outside reflector L surrounds the center reflector J at a distancefrom it of about three inches, more or less, as may be required, and itstands at right angles to the base of the center reflector, or at anyother angle above a right angle. The reflector L is'intended to spreadthe light to a much greater extentor distance than can be done by thecenter reflector.

The open space between the two reflectors is designed for the escape ofthe smoke andheat of the burners, and also to give light above theburners.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'

1. The combination of the center conical or bell-shaped reflector J andthe exterior reflector L, arranged at or near right angles with the baseof the inner reflector, and a suitable distance from the same,substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

2. The adjustable collar G with skeleton frame I, containing thereflectors J and L, and suspended on the gas-fixture by a set-screw, H,substantially as herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signaturein presence of two witnesses.

F. L. SENOUR.

Witnesses:

Tnos. F. BAILEY, GEo. M. WILLIAMSON.

